Greetings from Latvia

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject: Greetings from Latvia

Hi! My name is Imants and I have recently became an owner of one and a half AE86 Coupes. The silver car is running fine and is my daily driver , while the Supra rest during the winter. The second car is currently with a dead engine and will become a project car very soon.

Imants

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject:

Welcome, welcome! Wave

I had no idea there was AE86's in Latvia!
Nice to see people joining from many other countries!

Your Ae86 looks great, just gotta love it in the snow! Smile

You got any more pictures?

Best Regards,

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:50 pm Post subject:

That's an ae82 front on your hachi...WTF?
Anyway, it still looks nice, must be fun in the snow over there.
Welcome to the forum! Wave

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject:

Yes, the front has been damaged in the past and has been repaired by the previous owner. Apparently he did not manage to get the original Hachi parts, so he had been creative Smile

There are very few AE86 in Latvia. A couple are used in rallying and there are no other enthusiasts which participate in local events that I know of. Everybody seems to love BMWs here Smile

Some more pics:

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject:

Nice stuff mate:) Damn we need snow!!! Smile

Wataru Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 117 Location: Latvia

Hi! My name is Andris. And I'm friend of Imants. I own VW Golf II gti 16v. And I'm here because I will participate in Imant's ae86 project.

Widar: we have lots of them:). I have information about ten-eleven cars (not so bad for country with population ~ 2,5 million). And I think there's more...

Ivan141: But good news is that Imants own unique hatchi Very Happy

Some pictures: http://www.bmwpower.lv/my.php?op=gallery&name=gt99&pid=730

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject:

welcome guys!
i also bought one "frankestein" hachi with nissan headlights LOL
But it's only for spare parts.

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject:

Fii: Lovelly pictures! Cheerleader

gt99: Wow! That's double the amount of AE86's here in Sweden. It was never sold here, so... Smile

Welcome aboard!

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:40 pm Post subject:

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject:

Cool!

Are your cars imported from Finland during the early 90s?

Welcome both, btw. Wave

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject:

Wataru Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 117 Location: Latvia

More pictures with both Fii Corollas

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:17 pm Post subject:

Usual rust places.
Whats wrong with the engine?

Wataru Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 117 Location: Latvia

Fii bought third hachiroku Smile

Red. Pictures You will see next week.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:59 pm Post subject:

tell us more about the front conversion to ae82 parts...

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject:

alimonos, actually I can not tell much about the conversion, since it was done by the previous owner. All I can say it is not plug & play. A metal piece is welded to the hood to bend it down and meet the grill so it looks similar to AE82 hood. The fenders are cut (and maybe also welded) to fit the headlights. Custom mounts are fabricated for headlights.

ZaX, we still don't know what's wrong with the engine. It is too cold outside to have pleasure working on the car. However the engine on the third car is supposed to be less or more ok, so probably we can assemble one engine from the two, or even use it as it is.

Wataru Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 117 Location: Latvia

Fii's new hachiroku pictures from previous owner. We think this will be our project car.

Body (except damaged front) is in much better shape as dark grey hachiroku. It has broken differential and front.

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:41 am Post subject:

I think now we have 99.99% of the parts to make one good car.

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:30 pm Post subject:

ONLY 300 EUROS !!! Mad

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject:

Wataru Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 117 Location: Latvia

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject:

The previous owner calculated that he has to invest about 1000-2000EUR in order to make that car in great shape. It is quite hard to get parts for the Hachi in Latvia - he could not find the differential nor the headlights. Luckily I happen to have a broken Hachi, which have exactly the parts needed for this car.

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:16 pm Post subject:

Lucky you Fii!!!

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:22 pm Post subject:

Well, at the beginning I felt that 2000EUR I paid for the gray and the silver car was a bit too much. But now if I have two relatively good cars(plus some parts) for 2300EUR, that makes it 1150EUR a piece, I think it is quite good deal.

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject: